Emancipation Highway News Today

A Dumfries man was arrested Friday after he apparently tried to get out of a traffic ticket by telling a Fredericksburg police officer that his passenger was having a medical

A Fredericksburg man was charged with driving under the influence just days after he was arrested for a hit-and-run, police say. 

A man who terrified an older woman by jumping into her car near a Fredericksburg traffic light last year and taking her car was ordered Tuesday to spend nearly three

In a recent survey conducted by Potomac Local News, nearly 1,300 individuals shared their perspectives on the renaming of Route 1 from Jefferson Davis Highway to Richmond Highway.

Three heroic Virginia police officers saved a little girl’s life during a traffic stop last week.

After nearly 100 years as Jefferson Davis Highway, the name is no more.

When the Virginia General Assembly approved a bill in January 2020 that allowed jurisdictions to impose a 5-cent tax on disposable plastic bags, Fredericksburg City Council member Kerry Devine was

There have been many notable changes made in the Fredericksburg area in the year since George Floyd’s death sparked a protest movement across the nation.

Virginia Bans LGBTQ+ Panic Defense for Murder, Manslaughter April 01 2021 8:29 PM EDT Virginia has become the 12th U.S. state with a law against the LGBTQ+ “panic” defense in criminal trials. Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill into law Wednesday banning the use of the defense in trials for murder or voluntary manslaughter, the Bloomberg Law news service reports. Such defenses have been used in court for years, although more rarely recently, in efforts to justify crimes against LGBTQ+ peopl...

An effort to rename Jefferson Davis Highway has cleared one more hurdle.